We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"I found a lot of valuable features in SolarWinds NPM, such as the customized application monitoring that allows you to customize any monitoring and script customization, and you also have the option to deploy and upgrade SolarWinds NPM online, which is very useful for my organization."
"We found that it was easy to operate, and it was simple if anyone has entry-level working experience or even if someone is not experienced."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"One of the best features is the reports feature."
"Their support team is efficient, and it is easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds NPM is the performance monitoring to see the memory, and CPU utilization."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"It is stable."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"An area for improvement would be the use of modular licenses, which are not practical for big clients."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"Robustness of network element mapping tool could be better"
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"The solution's network discovery and node addition processes need more work."
"The interface could be made more user-friendly."
"Each model has different features, so clients need to purchase a separate model for SQL monitoring, database monitoring, network traffic analyzer, HTTP traffic, etc. So each feature they need is in a different model, but customers would prefer an all-in-one solution."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"The product is old and not updated."
"The interface needs some work."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 40th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Datadog, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Zabbix, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our SolarWinds NPM vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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